What does ↖️ Up-Left Arrow mean?
An arrow pointing diagonally to the upper left, the northwest direction. It helps point at the top-left corner of a screen, where menus and back buttons usually live, or at someone standing in the top row of a group photo. Occasionally it suggests going back and up at once, like returning to an earlier message. It is a precise, practical pointer rather than an emotional one.
↖️ Up-Left Arrow is an emoji from the Symbols category (arrows), added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010. People use it in messages about direction, intercardinal, northwest and up-left.
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↖️ Up-Left Arrow on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Up-Left Arrow looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Up-Left Arrow emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and ↖️ is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :arrow_upper_left:.
When was the Up-Left Arrow emoji added?
↖️ Up-Left Arrow was added in Emoji 0.6, released in 2010. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does ↖️ look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Up-Left Arrow. The underlying code (U+2196 U+FE0F) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.